MARCIE JAN BRONSTEIN
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Marcie Jan Bronstein is a visual artist whose work stands on three decades of dedication to hand-painted photo-based art and meditative practices. Her interest is in using the special qualities inherent to watercolor (bleeding, merging, flowing, layering) to create intimate, sensual paintings that reflect an inner world: Symbolic, emotional, diaristic and psychological. Titles are an integral, carefully considered part of the work. 
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All paintings are created without a sketch, a plan, or a mark of pencil on the paper. Images are discovered and composed completely in the moment, and with watercolor, this means that each mark made has a kind of finality. As with Asian brush painting, mindfulness and an open heart are key. 

A graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology and Hampshire College,  her work has been exhibited, published, and commissioned for thirty years. Bronstein is the author of three books and the creator of a number of large-scale public works. From 2014-18, she traveled the world teaching creative watercolor painting to hundreds of passengers on ships. In 2018, she was awarded a residency at the Millay Colony of the Arts, and her work was selected for the Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. In the Spring of 2020, a solo exhibition of paintings will be on view at the University of Maine Museum of Art. 

Since 1996, she has lived and worked in a reconstructed barn, with her family, on the coast of Maine. 

MARCIE JAN BRONSTEIN  .  Belfast, Maine USA 

EDUCATION
1992    Lorenzo de Medici: Diploma Magister Linguae: Italian language, Florence, Italy  
1988    Hampshire College: BFA, Amherst, MA
1986    Fashion Institute of Technology: AAS, Magna Cum Laude, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2019    ArtMaze ​Contemporary Art: featured artist, Summer, Issue 13
2018    Your Impossible Voice ​Literary Journal: cover painting, Winter Issue
2017    Portland Press Herald: feature article, Portland, ME

              Yale University, Perch Arts & Literary Journal: 2 paintings, New Haven, CT
              New England Review: cover painting, Middlebury, VT
              Maine Home and Design: selected for exclusive feature: Maine Artists To Watch, Portland, ME

              Princeton Art Brushes: Artist Spotlight         
2016    Art Revealed Magazine: portfolio and interview, London, UK
2015    After The Pause Poetry Journal: featured portfolio of paintings     

2008    The Maine Sunday Telegram: featured author, Portland, ME
2004    Exploring Color Photography: feature • McGraw Hill Publishers, New York, NY
2003    Non Satis Scire: Hampshire College Magazine: cover + portfolio feature, Amherst, MA
2001    Object Lessons: Beauty and Meaning in Art, Madison, WI
1998    The Free Press: “Two Artists in a Barn...”, Rockland, ME
1997    The Maine Sunday Telegram: review of solo exhibition, Portland, ME
1994    Creativity:  “And then there was NON...”, New York, NY
               ZOOM:  “Al Diaframma” , Milan, Italy
1993    Il Gazzetino:”Un’americana che dipinge le foto” (review), Venice, Italy
               Il Gazzetino: Musica & fotografia (review), Mestre, Italy 
               Progresso Fotografico (portfolio), Milan, Italy 
1992    La Nazione, Florence, Italy


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020    University of Maine Museum Of Art (solo show), Bangor, ME 
2018    Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial Exhibition, Rockland, ME
2017    The Annex Art Center, Castine, ME

2014    Photographic Resource Center: Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA
               Slocumb Gallery: “Positive/Negative: Pages”, Johnson City, TN   
2013    New England Photography Biennial, Framingham, MA
               Aarhus Gallery: “Infinite Horizons”, Belfast, ME
2012    Parallax, The Women’s Photography Exhibition , Notre Dame U, MD
2009    ME Museum of Photographic Art: Capture: 50 Photographic Artists, Falmouth, ME    
2007    Center for Maine Contemporary Art:  “Altered Nature” (invitational), Rockport, ME
             
Elan Fine Arts: gallery artist, Rockport, ME 
2006    Photomedia Center: “Illuminating the Negative” (solo), Erie, PA

2005    Elan Fine Arts: gallery artist, Rockport, ME 
              Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic: “Portrait/Self Portrait” (juried show), Bar Harbor, ME

              Center for Maine Contemporary Art: “Winter in Maine” (juried show), Rockport, ME
2002    Center for Maine Contemporary Art: “Plugged In” (juried show), Rockport, ME

2002    Elements Gallery: gallery artist, Rockland, ME
2001    LSU:  “Works On Paper 2001” (prize Winner- juried show), Baton Rouge, LA
1999    Elements Gallery "The Doll Series" (solo show), Rockland, ME
               Elements Gallery "Dogs In Cars" (solo show), Rockland, ME
               Maine Coast Artists: “After Dark”, Rockport, ME
              The Frankfurt Airport: “First Designer’s Avenue”, Frankfurt, Germany

1997    Creative Photographic Arts Center: “Photographs 1992-1997” (solos show), Lewiston, ME
               A.I.R. Gallery Invitational: “Generations” , New York, NY
               Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, Hamilton: “Emerging Artists”  (2 person show), New York, NY
1996    Sylvia White Gallery:  “The Horse Show” (juried show),  Los Angeles, CA
              Danforth Gallery: “Visions of the Mind” (juried show),  Portland, ME
1995    Gallery 2/20:  “Work in Progress”, New York, NY 

1993    Nuova Libreria Galileo & Studio Poletto (solo shows), Mestre, Italy
1994    Galleria Il Diaframma/ Kodak Cultura : “Foto Colorate” (5 person show), Milan, Italy
1992    Artemare 1992:  “L’uomo e il Mare”, Riposto, Italy
1990    Michael Thompson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

              UC Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
1987    Hampshire College (solos show), Amherst, MA


PUBLIC ART / COMMISSIONS / GRANTS 
2005    Bellevue Hospital: 250 photographs for new hospital wing, New York, NY
2005    ME Arts Commission: Good Idea Grant, Augusta, Maine
2004    Public Percent-for-Art Program: 30’ x 15’ installation, Belfast, ME
2002    Public Percent-for-Art Program: 24 works, Denver, CO
1994    Saks Fifth Avenue: art in windows, New York, NY
1990    Neiman Marcus: art in windows, San Francisco, CA

RESIDENCIES
2018    Millay Colony, (Full Fellowship), Austerlitz, NY

1986    Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1985    Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT



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  • HOME
  • WORK
    • BEGINNER'S MIND . 2019-
    • OASIS . 2019
    • MOURNING, MORNING . 2019
    • SEEKING, FINDING . 2018
    • CIRCUMNAVIGATING . 2018
    • FOLLOWING SEAS . 2014-18
    • COMMITMENT . 2017
    • TRAVELING HOME . 2017
    • PRIMAL SEA . 2017
    • COEXISTENCE . 2017
    • LOVE . 2015-16
    • VISION QUEST . 2015
    • SWIMMING . 2014-15
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